Agora Object: P 16507
Inventory Number:   P 16507
Section Number:   ΓΓ 962
Title:   Amphora Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces, but substantially complete to the edge of the shoulder; filled out in plaster; a few non-joining fragments from the wall are in storage. Sharply sloping shoulder set off from the neck by a ridge; rather wide neck, with a handle-ridge near the top and a wide projecting rim, flat on top. Broad handles from ridge to shoulder angle.
Light reddish-buff clay with pale buff slip. Matte red paint covers the lip, and extends down the neck to the handle-ridge and over the top of the handles. Around the edge of the shoulder is a zone of narrow painted bands, alternating dark brown and white; three brown and two white remain.
Cf. P 13687 and CVA Leipzig 1, pl. 50, 4, called 5th. century, with earlier refs. to examples in Rhodes.
Notes:   Not found in 2013.
Context:   Well, middle fill, containers 11-25. Context ca. 425-400 B.C.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.158; Diam. (shoulder) 0.201
Date:   May, June 1939
Section:   ΓΓ
Grid:   ΓΓ:32/ΛΑ
Elevation:   -2.80 to -4.20m.
Masl:   -4.2--2.8m.
Deposit:   G 18:1.2
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Agora XII, no. 1497, pl. 63.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:P 13687
    Agora:Object:CVA Leipzig 1, pl. 50, 4.
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 38, p. 411
Object: Agora XII, no. 1497
Deposit: G 18:1
Deposit: G 18:1.2
Card: P 16507
Card: P 16507